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- noun The state or condition of being
loony ;craziness ,lunacy .
Etymologies
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Examples
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As ridiculous as all of this is, it doesn't compare to the looniness that defines the second anti-evolution bill.
Michael Zimmerman, Ph.D.: Creationism in New Hampshire: Attacking Science and Undermining Religious Freedom Ph.D. Michael Zimmerman 2012
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As ridiculous as all of this is, it doesn't compare to the looniness that defines the second anti-evolution bill.
Michael Zimmerman, Ph.D.: Creationism in New Hampshire: Attacking Science and Undermining Religious Freedom Ph.D. Michael Zimmerman 2012
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Imagine what this barrage of looniness must be like for sane Arizonans.
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One day in 2005, Marissa Mayer was trying to explain why the looniness of Google was actually the crazy-like-a-fox variety and not the kind calling for straitjackets.
In the Plex Steven Levy 2011
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One day in 2005, Marissa Mayer was trying to explain why the looniness of Google was actually the crazy-like-a-fox variety and not the kind calling for straitjackets.
In the Plex Steven Levy 2011
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Sorry to disappoint you, but despite my liberal looniness, I actually believe it's our job to change how they do it ... and perhaps reincarnate whatever is left of journalistic integrity ... not the government's job. aware
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In the midst of an exorcism that's lurid enough to approach certifiable looniness, the priest cries, "We're going to need some more holy water!"
'Witch': Toil And Trouble Joe Morgenstern 2011
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For example, before his death, it was certainly okay to discuss Michael Jackson in the context of pedophilia, mental disease, and just plain looniness.
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Via script and direction, Jette articulated the looniness of the world (wasn't the Great War the war to end all wars?).
James Scarborough: "Leiris/Picasso," The Bootleg Theater 2010
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On TV (notably "Monty Python's Flying Circus," produced for British TV), in live performances, recordings and feature films (including the incomparable "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" and "Life of Brian"), the Pythons 'absurdist narratives and characterizations mixed raging intellect with shameless looniness.
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